Iquitos virus: a novel reassortant Orthobunyavirus associated with human illness in Peru.

• Main Authors: Patricia V Aguilar (Author), Alan D Barrett (Author), Mohammad F Saeed (Author), Douglas M Watts (Author), Kevin Russell (Author), Carolina Guevara (Author), Julia S Ampuero (Author), Luis Suarez (Author), Manuel Cespedes (Author), Joel M Montgomery (Author), Eric S Halsey (Author), Tadeusz J Kochel (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Oropouche (ORO) virus, a member of the Simbu serogroup, is one of the few human pathogens in the Orthobunyavirus genus in the family Bunyaviridae. Genetic analyses of ORO-like strains from Iquitos, Peru, identified a novel reassortant containing the S and L segments of ORO virus and the M segment of...